Magnificent ferruginous hawk on a telephone pole, wintering here in San Diego County. From my photo archives for @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social 🪶
Lori Batchelor🇨🇦
@lorichirp.bsky.social
Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!
Red-marked Pachodynerus wasp (Pachodynerus erynnis) on dried wildflower seed heads Sentinel draped in crimson and charcoal. CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-13-26 #ColorADay #redWed #eck #macro #nature #red #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #wasps #bugsky
Glorietta Bay facing San Diego and the Coronado Bridge. Brown pelican floating in the foreground. 
Pollinator at work! A common thread-waisted wasp (Ammophila procera) with its face in a Canada thistle bloom #inveterbrates
A spectacular sunset with silhouetted Snow Geese. I love silhouettes so much! #birds #BirdOfTheDay #silhouette #SunsetAndSilhouettes 🌿
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Silhouette. A great egret on a dead tree. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
Last minute twofer of a siskin (which I just learned is a finch) doing its thing. #BirdOfTheDay #Silhoutte #Silhouette #Finches #birds #photography
Framed‼️ An #AmericanGoldFinch being framed by green tree limbs and by a window frame barely visible in the distant, dark background. #BirdOfTheDay #Finches (alt theme) #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #birding #birdwatching #nature #NaturePhotography #WestCoastKin #art #painting
A Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) in #Silhouette on a summer evening. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
🪶 Good Morning, Happy Tuesday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Silhoutte; any bird in silhouette Alt. is #Finches; any bird from the finch family - A Tufted Duck heads home across the lake at sunset - A Linnet in song in the sunshine #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography
A couple of lesser yellowlegs, fattening up for the fall journey. This retention pond was bumping – if you’re a sandpiper in Saskatchewan, whatever’s in that water is good eatin’. #birds
Here’s a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. The males are always yellow while the females can be yellow or black. She’s enjoying some Joe Pye Weed in the yard #invertebrates #NativePlants 🌿 #BugSky
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on some Ironweed in the garden #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky #NativePlants
Another Hiding Spot in the Redwoods! #thicktrunktuesday #forest #redwoods #pnw #woods #naturephotography #ourdoorphotography
The surveillance software update has finished downloading. Satellite mode is now fully operational. 🦆🦢🪶🌿🍁 #Birds #BirdsAreNotReal #CobraChicken #HonkEnthusiast #ProfessionalHisser #OhMyDouglas
To bloom differently is simply another way of being beautiful… #BeYourOwnKind #Photography #ArtInNature #BloomOnPurpose
Turkey Vulture with photo-bombing gull on the side of the Ganaraska River in Port Hope. The birds seem to be enjoying what's left of the salmon run. 🪶